Are you passionate about creating simple user experiences for complex domains?

Come join the Yahoo! Ads and Data design team.  

Your Responsibilities:

• Leading the definition of great UX throughout the product lifecycle, from initial explorations to final deliverables
• Ensuring high standards of usability, consistency and clarity in design
• Developing and presenting your design ideas
• Using data to inform design and working with research partners to understand and interpret user feedback
• Working within an established Design Language (but also be proactive about identifying opportunities to expand the design language / pattern library)

Our Requirements:

• 5+ years working in a fast-paced environment in complex domains
• MS/BA/BS in HCI or related field
• Solid understanding of UX design principles
• Knowledge of core design tools and familiarity with current Web technologies and Web application UI paradigms
• Expert JS, CSS and HTML presentation layer development skills a HUGE plus
• Killer visual and interactive design skills in an Adobe friendly environment
• Strong, clean visual design sense
• Mad wire framing skills! (Graph paper provided)
• The ability to understand client goals/objectives and make recommendations to design/transform the web site to meet them.
• Must be self-motivated. Independently manage time, prioritize, manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent analytic ability and effective problem solving skills
• A talent for diplomatic discussion: the ability to listen, convince and collaborate in a cross-functional environment
• Online design portfolio demonstrating a strong, clean design sense

Location: Champaign, IL

Title: Product Manager

Yahoo’s Advertising and Data team is responsible for the technology platforms that power all aspects of digital advertising on Yahoo and partner sites.  Yahoo powers daily habits for 800MM monthly users and digital adverting is an integral part of the user experience. Yahoo generates enormous wealth of data, which are processed by scalable Big Data systems. Data collected is used to make critical decisions on what Ads will be served, marketplace health, reporting, billing & payments etc.

The Advertising and Data Product team in Champaign is focused on building Data/Analytics products that provide actionable data/insights, which enable better and faster decisions for Yahoo Advertisers and Publishers. Working closely with Engineering teams, the Data & Advertising Product Managers work to break down complex Advertising initiatives into actionable data/analytics that can be surfaced to the customers. The customers of these data/analytics products range from Yahoo sciences/marketplace teams that build models to provide better ads to Yahoo users to reporting/analytics teams that provide insights to Yahoo Advertiser & Publishers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the full product lifecycle from conception, requirements definition, through to launch.
• Communicate product vision, objectives and requirements across Yahoo stakeholders position your product for success
• Prioritize, plan and balance customer requests.
• Drive investigations into business and operational issues that have a direct impact on performance, revenue and recommend solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field is a must.
• 2+ years owning and managing products from concept stage to launch is a must.
• Technical, Analytical and problem-solving abilities with a strategic focus.
• Facilitate working in a cross-functional, geographically dispersed organization.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills with both business and technical teams
• Minimum of two years experience building large scale, enterprise-level software in engineering capacity is preferred. 
• Familiarity with Digital Advertising concepts is a plus.
• MBA is preferred.
• Knowledge about BIG Data technologies/platforms like Hadoop etc. is a plus

About the Team

Yahoo is looking for engineers to join the Yahoo Hadoop team. The team has openings in Champaign IL. In this role you would be working on developing the next generation Big Data stack utilizing Hadoop for Batch, Storm for real time, and Spark for Iterative. Hadoop is the de-facto operating system for the worldwide cloud computing industry. Yahoo is the birthplace of Hadoop and has the largest Hadoop install in the world. The server count has grown from a few hundred nodes, to over 30,000 in the past few years. We have over 400,000 cores that process nearly 300PB of data spread over 25 clusters running a mix of Hadoop, Storm, and Spark.

About the Role

We are looking for experienced and motivated software engineers to help build a highly scalable and robust next generation Big Data stack to power Yahoo's data processing needs. The qualified engineer would work on one or more of the following open source projects: Hadoop Core (Common, Mapreduce, YARN, HDFS), Storm, or Spark.

If you have strong distributed systems background, love to solve complex and challenging problems, can work independently, and want to participate in some of the most exciting open source projects, we want to hear from you!. If you want to learn about Hadoop, Storm, or Spark and get a deep understanding of cloud computing, this is the job for you.

Responsibilities:

• Help Yahoo design the next generation cloud
• Understand all aspects of Yahoo's Big Data Stack (Hadoop, Storm, Spark) and learn select components in detail
• Be a leader in open source (Apache Software Foundation) projects
• Design massively distributed technology and develop leading edge cloud computing software
• Work closely with service engineering, operations, and Hadoop users to engineer cutting-edge solutions that allow Yahoo to answer today's most challenging big data questions.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science (or equivalent)
• Strong in Java or C++
• Deep understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Performance Optimization Techniques
• Experience with one or more of the following: Hadoop Core, Pig, Hive, Hcat, Oozie, Hbase, Spark, or Storm
• Experience with large distributed data and systems
• Knowledge of machine learning techniques
• Knowledge of database internals and query optimization

Please send resumes to resume-hadoop@yahoo-inc.com

Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help drive solutions for complex software problems on systems like these, we are looking for you.

Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineering managers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to lead teams that develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage, low-latency data retrieval, and data analytic systems.

We are looking for experienced software engineering managers to lead teams that analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.

Everyone on staff at our Champaign location share these characteristics:

• A degree in Computer Science or a similar engineering pursuit.  All of our engineers and managers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including several with doctorates

• Strong knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry

• The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems

• Solid written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent problem solving and multitasking skills

• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment

• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

At the Champaign site we are looking for technically capable experienced managers who have industry experience leading and managing teams of 8 to 15 engineers with a history of delivering software products that

• are within resource constraints (schedule, budget, staff)

• are of high quality

• meet specified functional requirements

• are data-oriented (database, data analysis, data communication, etc.)

• use Unix or Linux systems

We are also looking for managerial experience with

• building teams

• managing personnel issues

• giving feedback

• mentoring

• managing production issues

If this describes you, then we have a career for you at our place.  Come see what we’re doing at Yahoo on the Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois.

About Yahoo

We like to think of ourselves as the biggest start-up in Silicon Valley. We are reinventing an original Internet icon for the modern era to support the needs of the next generation of users and platforms through design.

Please send resume to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com

Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to help develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency retrieval systems.

We are looking for software engineers at various experience levels to analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.

All the engineers at our Champaign location share these characteristics:

• A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from their achievement of obtaining a degree in CS or a similar engineering pursuit.  All of our engineers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including several with doctorates

• Experience working with Unix or Linux systems

• Excellent debugging and testing skills

• Excellent knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry

• The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems

• Solid written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent problem solving and multitasking skills

• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment

• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

While the programming languages we use depend upon the specific domain requirements of each assignment, most of our engineers use languages such as Java, C++, Perl, Python, and Pig, an SQL-capable scripting language.

At the Champaign site we have open positions on several software development teams including those that do data collection and delivery, back-end data processing, database storage and retrieval, and front-end user interfaces, both web-oriented and programmatic.  The exact set of skills needed for each of these teams differs slightly.  Specifically, in addition to the required characteristics listed above, the ideal candidates for each of our teams would also have the following capabilities…

For the data collection and delivery team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    System performance analysis skills

·    Experience working with networking software such as HTTP, FTP, and TCP

For the back-end/data processing teams

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Python scripting language

·    Experience with Hadoop or other Cloud computing or distributed programming environments

·    The ability to work with data sets using standard SQL techniques

For the database team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    Experience with database programming including SQL languages

·    Knowledge of database systems including database maintenance and optimization techniques

For the front-end/user interface team

·    The ability to use modern front-end development languages like JavaScript and HTML5

·    Experience developing web browser interfaces to databases

·    Understanding of Application Programmatic interfaces to databases

If any of these describe you, then we have a career for you at our place.  Come see what we’re doing at Yahoo on the Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois.

About Yahoo

We like to think of ourselves as the biggest startup in Silicon Valley. We are reinventing an original Internet icon for the modern era to support the needs of the next generation of users and platforms through design.

If interested please send resume to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com

We’re looking for:Innovators. Problem Solvers. Creative Thinkers.

Who We Are

AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company formed in 2013 following separation from Abbott Laboratories. The company's mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to develop and market advanced therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. AbbVie employs approximately 25,000 people worldwide and markets medicines in more than 170 countries.

The AbbVie Innovation Center is located in the Research Park at the University of Illinois and provides an opportunity for to students and AbbVie’s Research and Development IT group to collaborate on projects to help advance our science. The Part-Time Student Program is designed for students who are interested in gaining real-life experience in addition to their coursework.

Web Application Developer

Position Description

Major Responsibilities

• Design and develop web applications using Java and a web development framework
• Conduct sufficient testing to ensure application robustness. Document the testing performed and the results of the testing.
• Provide documentation within the code as well as in detailed design documents

Qualifications

General

• Registered as a full-time student
• Able to commute to work location on a daily basis
• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above 
• Available 10-15 hours/week during the academic year; 35-40 hours/week during summer semester

Prefer knowledge of:

• Java EE
• Web development frameworks such as JSF/Oracle ADF, JSP/Servlet, Spring MVC
• Database access using JDBC, JPA or  Hibernate
• Languages:  Java, PL/SQL, JavaScript, XML
• Database : Oracle 11g, MySQL

To Apply: Submit your resume and cover letter to Masha Trenhaile

More about AbbVie:  www.abbvie.com

We’re looking for:Innovators. Problem Solvers. Creative Thinkers.

Who We Are

AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company formed in 2013 following separation from Abbott Laboratories. The company's mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to develop and market advanced therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. AbbVie employs approximately 25,000 people worldwide and markets medicines in more than 170 countries.

The AbbVie Innovation Center is located in the Research Park at the University of Illinois and provides an opportunity for to students and AbbVie’s Research and Development IT group to collaborate on projects to help advance our science. The Part-Time Student Program is designed for students who are interested in gaining real-life experience in addition to their coursework.

Web Application Developer

Position Description

Major Responsibilities

• Design and develop web applications using Java and a web development framework
• Conduct sufficient testing to ensure application robustness. Document the testing performed and the results of the testing.
• Provide documentation within the code as well as in detailed design documents

Qualifications

General

• Registered as a full-time student
• Able to commute to work location on a daily basis
• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above 
• Available 10-15 hours/week during the academic year; 35-40 hours/week during summer semester

Prefer knowledge of:

• Java EE
• Web development frameworks such as salesforce.com, JSP/Servlet, Spring MVC
• Database access using JDBC, JPA or  Hibernate
• Languages:  Java, PL/SQL, JavaScript, XML
• Database : Oracle 11g, MySQL

To Apply: Submit your resume and cover letter to Masha Trenhaile

More about AbbVie:  www.abbvie.com

Software Engineer, SteelHead Protocol Optimization
Location: Champaign, IL

Riverbed's SteelHead appliance is the industry leading WAN Optimization Controller and part of the most complete application performance platform for location-independent computing. At its core is a set of application-aware optimizations that overcome the obstacles of high latency and low bandwidth in wide-area networks, allowing our customers to do what they do better, cheaper and faster.

The SteelHead Protocol Optimization team is responsible for developing innovative solutions to network application performance problems. We value fast delivery of high quality software that addresses real world problems. We embrace new technologies and empower individuals to grow personally and professionally. We're looking for smart, passionate software engineers who are excited to work on cutting-edge technology and take on tough problems to join us!

About this Position:

As a member of the team you'll take ownership over all aspects of developing new protocol optimizations for the SteelHead line of products. You'll research and reverse-engineer application-layer network protocols, devise clever ways to improve the performance of these applications, apply modern programming techniques to build well-designed, well-tested, high-quality features, and support and extend a code base of existing optimizations. You'll also work with the team on our tools and processes as we strive to continuously improve.

What we're looking for:
 

• Strong programming abilities in C++, Python, or another language
• Self-­motivated with an aptitude for problem solving
• Solid OO design, development, and debugging skills
• Desire to work in a collaborative team environment
• BS or higher degree in CS, EE, or related field

Other beneficial qualifications:
 

• Networking background, especially layer 7 protocols
• Experience with packet trace analysis
• Experience with software testing methodologies
• Experience with agile software development

Our Culture:
 

• Relaxed work environment - t-shirt and jeans, free snacks
• Sharing ideas and keeping current - weekly paper discussions
• Working on what you care about - Fix It Days and Hackathons
• Celebrating and having fun - release parties and social events

To Apply send your resume to nwondra@riverbed.com or apply online at:  https://careers-riverbed.icims.com/jobs/1467/software-engineer-protocols...

About Riverbed:

Riverbed Technology is a San Francisco-based company. We feature an attractive compensation package, including salary, RSUs, empolyee stock purchase plan, 401k with company match, and comprehensive benefits.

Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ : RVBD ) is available at www.riverbed.com We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer. M/F/D/V/LGBT.

Littelfuse is the worldwide leader in circuit protection products and solutions with annual sales over $750 million in 2013. Littelfuse products are vital components in virtually every market that uses electrical energy, from consumer electronics to automobiles, commercial vehicles and industrial equipment. Littelfuse has made significant investments to ensure that we not only have the world’s broadest and deepest line of circuit protection solutions, but also the most recognized circuit protection brand in the world.

We work in a highly empowered work environment where managers are very involved in planning and generating ideas for improvement. You will be supported and surrounded by some of the best and brightest people in the industry. At Littelfuse you will be in great company!

Reporting to the Lab and Technical Services Manager within the Powr-Gard business unit, the High Power Lab Engineer is responsible for providing power/surge lab services.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Possess a complete understanding of high power lab equipment and testing capabilities including creation of new electrical circuits, set up or new/existing circuits, set up/operation of data acquisition equipment, and extracting data from oscillographs.

* Ensure efficient and effective departmental operations through management of the Engineering test Request database, lab maintenance, and scheduling of witness testing as well as calibration events.

* Test products according to guidelines of Third-Party specifications; should be/become well-versed in standards (UL248, UL4248).

* Participate in design verification/validation programs.

* Evaluate product and/or application issues. Requirements - B.S. E.E. is needed to fully understand the circuitry of the High Power Lab.

* 0-2 years experience in electrical industry.

* Good problem solving & research skills.

* Project Management experience.

* Computer word processing and spreadsheet experience.

* Able to handle multiple tasks efficiently.

* Team Player.

* Good written and oral communication skills.

* Results oriented.

* Good organizational skills.

* Good “people” skills. Good listener and can adapt to the customer audience.

Preferred:

* Experience with programming languages.

* Experience with UL or equivalent approval-type agencies.

Apply Here: http://bit.ly/1uS3eGA 

Common Ground Publishing: Publishing Department Intern

Common Ground's publishing department seeks a junior or senior English or Creative Writing major to join our team as a Publishing Intern. This is an unpaid position that is eligible for course credit at the University of Illinois. This internship offers a chance to gain valuable publishing experience working with some of Common Ground's 77 academic journals and journal collections. The Publishing Intern will work closely with the Managing Editor and Community Editors.

Position:  Publishing Intern
Hours:  12-15/week

Responsibilities:

·         Correspond with academics and other publishing professionals

·         Review journal article submissions for clarity and adherence to our submission requirements

·         Assign peer referees to journal article submissions

·         Proofread and check reference lists

·         Other tasks as assigned by the Community Editors

Requirements:

·         Interest in Publishing

·         Excellent written and verbal communication skills

·         Knowledge of various academic referencing styles, but primarily the Chicago Manual of Style

·         Ability to work independently and as part of a team

·         Ability to focus simultaneously on short- and long-term projects

·         Experience with Excel and MS Word

·         Experience with copyediting/proofreading is a plus

Please email a cover letter and resume to hr@commongroundpublishing.com.

W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE: GWW), headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, is a Fortune 500 industrial supply company founded in 1927. While each customer has a unique facility to operate and a different problem to solve, its customers all share the same requirement: when they need one of Grainger’s products, they often need it right away. With more than 22,000 employees, the Grainger team works closely with customers to better understand their challenges and provide
cost-savings solutions. With 2012 sales of $9 billion, Grainger is a Fortune 500 Company, and is a perennial member of Fortune magazine’s Most Admired Companies List. As a leading distributor, Grainger’s success depends on an effective and growing supply chain and sourcing operation.

We are helping build the next generation of Industrial MRO products to sustain the leadership in the space.

Position Description – Part-Time Internship Position:

The Research Development Engineer will gather data remotely from wireless sensors and display data in the graphical form as well as develop a decision making engine in the circuit design which can take action to a stimulus using different threshold for different sensor type

Supported by Grainger’s engineering team, the Computer Research Engineer will design and build a functional prototype that will be used as the basis for further research in the digitization of physical systems, including the real-time analysis of system performance. Successful execution of the project can lead to additional projects spanning a broader set of industrial products.

This position will work in Grainger’s Innovation Lab in the UIUC Research Park. The duration of this phase 1 research work is approximately 8 weeks during the fall semester 2014 with opportunities for continued research work into phase 2 in spring semester 2015.

Tasks:

• Develop circuit and logic design for wireless module, evaluation board for sensor network.
• Develop WIFI and sensor module evaluation board
• Develop logic using 802.11(WLAN), 802.15 (WPAN) standard for receiving and transmitting data.
• Test-fix hardware and PCB
• Develop, debug and testing WIFI and Bluetooth Co-existence with Cellular performance.
• Visually showing the way patterns
• Perform chip architecture, RTL design.
• Test bench and verification of the design

Position Requirements:

• Active enrollment in Master’s program.
• Should be creative, innovative, independent, and self-motivated to bring a hardware concept to reality
• Hardware assembly language
• Should be able to do program a FPGA – CPLD using HDL
• Experience with View Logic, or CAD and other circuit board design.
• Experience in Circuit and Logic Design, simulated logic design.
• Performed Hardware design verification test, measured signal integrity on boards.
• Created register scripts to initialize Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) where diagnostics software was not available.
• Experience with wireless sensor networks, and wireless communication protocols.
• Experience with a wide variety of lab instrumentation including logic analyzers, high speed electrical oscilloscopes, high speed optical oscilloscope and other wireless signal measuring devices.

Grainger is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status

W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE: GWW), headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, is a Fortune 500 industrial supply company founded in 1927. While each customer has a unique facility to operate and a different problem to solve, its customers all share the same requirement: when they need one of Grainger’s products, they often need it right away. With more than 22,000 employees, the Grainger team works closely with customers to better understand their challenges and provide
cost-savings solutions. With 2012 sales of $9 billion, Grainger is a Fortune 500 Company, and is a perennial member of Fortune magazine’s Most Admired Companies List. As a leading distributor, Grainger’s success depends on an effective and growing supply chain and sourcing operation.

We are helping build the next generation of Industrial MRO products to sustain the leadership in the space.

Position Description – Part-Time Internship Position:

Research Development Engineer with strong expertise in software development and web application design which can gather data from sensors and display data in the graphical form as well as develop a decision making engine behind the web which can take action to a stimulus using different threshold for different sensor type.  Ideal candidates for this position will posess:

• Strong software development engineering credentials
• Hands-on experience working with web design and embedded systems
• Familiarity with wireless technologies
• Knowledge of embedded systems deployment in industrial environments is preferred
• Experience with wireless technologies such as; ibeacon, zigbee, WIFI, 6LEWPAN, and mesh networks etc. is preferred

Supported by Grainger’s engineering team, the Computer Research Engineer will design and build a functional prototype that will be used as the basis for further research in the digitization of physical systems, including the real-time analysis of system performance. Successful execution of the project can lead to additional projects spanning a broader set of industrial products. The duration of this phase 1 research work is approximately 8 weeks during the fall semester 2014 with opportunities for continued research work into phase 2 in spring semester 2015.

This position will be based in Grainger’s Research Center in the UIUC Research Park.

Requirements:

• Actively enrolled towards Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or PHD in the same field.
• Experience with Linux operating systems and/or RTOS.
• Experience in Java and embedded C/C++ programming.
• Understanding of modern network architecture (e.g.SOA, REST), protocols (UDP, TCP/IP4/IP6) and communication frameworks (e.g. XMPP, MQTT).
• Experience with wireless sensor networks, and wireless communication protocols.

Grainger is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status

Dow AgroSciences, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, develops leading-edge crop protection and plant biotechnology solutions to meet the challenges of the growing world. Dow AgroSciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company with annual global sales of $7.1 billion in 2013.  Learn more at http://www.dowagro.com/.  Follow Dow AgroSciences on Facebook and YouTube or subscribe to our News Release RSS Feed.

The Information Technology and Data Analysis function of Dow AgroSciences seeks a student to work in Dow’s research park at the University of Illinois for the analysis of chemical and biological datasets as well as to improve and develop computational tools for the Cheminformatics group.

The ideal candidate for this position will be pursuing a MS or PhD in Computer Sciences, Cheminformatics, Computational Chemistry or a closely related field.

• A background or interest in Chemistry and Biology is desirable.
• Knowledge in Cheminformatics or Computational Chemistry is desirable.
• Proficiency and hands-on experience in machine learning methods, data analysis and data visualization is required.
• Strong programming skills as well as good written and verbal communication skills are required.

To apply please email your resume to hr@platformstaffing.com

Dow AgroSciences, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, develops leading-edge crop protection and plant biotechnology solutions to meet the challenges of the growing world. Dow AgroSciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company with annual global sales of $7.1 billion in 2013.  Learn more at http://www.dowagro.com/.  Follow Dow AgroSciences on Facebook and YouTube or subscribe to our News Release RSS Feed

The Information Technology and Data Analysis function of Dow AgroSciences seeks a student to work in Dow’s research park at the University of Illinois to apply advanced data mining algorithms for analyzing biological datasets that are of interest to the company.

The ideal candidate for this position will be pursuing a MS or PhD in Computer Sciences or a closely related field.

• Proficiency in machine learning methods with strong programming skills in languages such as Python, R, MATLAB, C, or JAVA is highly desirable. 
• Good written and verbal communication skills are required.

To apply please email your resume to hr@platformstaffing.com

Dow AgroSciences, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, develops leading-edge crop protection and plant biotechnology solutions to meet the challenges of the growing world. Dow AgroSciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company with annual global sales of $7.1 billion in 2013.  Learn more at http://www.dowagro.com/.  Follow Dow AgroSciences on Facebook and YouTube or subscribe to our News Release RSS Feed

The Information Technology and Data Analysis function of Dow AgroSciences seeks a student to work in Dow’s research park at the University of Illinois to develop advanced algorithms for analyzing large biological datasets relating to genomic data.

The ideal candidate for this position will be pursuing a MS or PhD in Computer Sciences or a closely related field.

• Proficiency in machine learning and hands on experience with advanced regression techniques or advanced classification algorithms is required.
• Strong skills in programming languages (e.g., Java) is highly desirable.
• Good written and verbal communication skills is required.  
• Experience with quantitative packages (e.g., MATLAB) is also required.

To apply please email your resume to hr@platformstaffing.com

Dow AgroSciences, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, develops leading-edge crop protection and plant biotechnology solutions to meet the challenges of the growing world. Dow AgroSciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company with annual global sales of $7.1 billion in 2013.  Learn more at http://www.dowagro.com/.  Follow Dow AgroSciences on Facebook and YouTube or subscribe to our News Release RSS Feed

The Information Technology and Data Analysis function of Dow AgroSciences seeks a student to work in Dow’s research park at the University of Illinois to apply advanced computer vision algorithms to analyze biological image datasets.

The ideal candidate for this position will be pursuing a MS or PhD in Computer Sciences or a closely related field.

• Experience in advanced computer vision or image processing algorithms is required.
• Proficiency in computer programming languages as well as standard quantitative packages such as MATLAB is highly desired.
• Good written and verbal communication skills are required.

To apply please email your resume to hr@platformstaffing.com

Company Name: AbbVie

Category: Software Engineering

Position Title: D3 & Javascript developer

Status: Undergraduate or Graduate Hourly

Hours per week: 10 – 15 during academic year

                             35 – 40 during summer semester

Contact Email: Masha.Trenhaile@abbvie.com

Who We Are:

AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company formed in 2013 following separation from Abbott Laboratories. The company's mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to develop and market advanced therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. AbbVie employs approximately 25,000 people worldwide and markets medicines in more than 170 countries.

The AbbVie Innovation Center is located in the Research Park at the University of Illinois and provides an opportunity for students and AbbVie’s Research and Development IT group to collaborate on projects to help advance our science.  

Position Description: 

The Part-Time Student Program at the AbbVie Innovation Center, located in the Research Park, is designed to augment AbbVie’s regular staff, and is for students who are able to work in parallel to their school schedule. Major duties include:

·         Authoring scientific software modules to support drug discovery research activities

·         Authoring RESTful web service APIs to pull, modulate, and integrate data

·         Updating existing software to enhance usability, speed, and/or functionality

·         Testing and analyzing new and existing software to enhance usability

Qualifications: 

·         Must be registered as a full-time student

·         Must be able to commute to the work location on a daily basis

·         Undergraduate and Graduate students

·         Cumulative minimum GPA of 3.0/4.0, or equivalent

·         Must be authorized to work in the US on a permanent basis without requiring sponsorship

·         10 - 15 hours/week during the academic year

·         35 - 40 hours/week during the summer semester

·         Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word

·         Creative individual passionate about good design and great user experiences

·         Ability to design and deliver clean and usable user interface prototypes for desktop, tablet and phone experiences

·         Basic familiarity with software testing methodologies and appreciation for usability best practices

·         Classroom experience and continuing interest in one or more of the following domains: Visualization (including D3.js); Scientific Computing/Advanced Data Mining; Literature Mining and Inference; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics 

Preferred Technical Skills: 

·         HTML/CSS/JavaScript/JQuery/JSON

·         Familiarity with Javascript libraries and Web UI Frameworks and desire to learn new ones

·         Knowledge of SQL and relational database design

Note: The position will be hired through a third-party hiring agency and will begin as soon as possible over the fall semester with an option to continue into the Spring 2015. 

To apply: Submit your resume to Masha Trenhaile at Masha.Trenhaile@abbvie.com

Learn more about us at: www.abbvie.com

The personal measurement revolution will be built on multi-tier software.  Be the software team leader to design and implement the numerical, database, cell phone, and security package that will empower everyone on earth to measure the water purity, air purity, and medical samples they care about most – their own.

SpectroClick seeks an enterprising software architect to link its instrument, human interface, and chemistry technology with software so that using our instruments will be as common as texting. 

ABOUT SPECTROCLICK

SpectroClick is a technology start up based in the EnterpriseWorks Incubator at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Park in Champaign, Illinois. We have secure funding for two years, with our primary focus on completing the software to bring our spectrometer and related instructional interface and chemical reactant packets to market. There is significant potential for growth in technical and management responsibilities.  Get involved with a startup primed for exponential growth.

POSITION

SpectroClick seeks a PARTNER SOFTWARE ENGINEER to

• develop our core spectrometry technology.
• prepare back end/web/database software and video to instruct users in employing the instruments and interpreting the results.
• supervise student interns responsible for our website and small programming projects.
• originate corporate strategies, becoming co-leader.
• keep SpectroClick at the state of the art in mobile, middleware, and back end computing.

The PARTNER SOFTWARE ENGINEER must be employable in the United States.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• At least a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science; Masters degree preferred.
• Familiarity with such common numerical methods as regression, Fourier transform, parametric nonlinear fitting, and parallel processing.
• Completed a college level course in Quantitative Chemical Analysis at the college level – OR –
• A more advanced course in analytical chemistry – OR –
• Equivalent professional experience.
• Has written at least one program that runs on a cellular telephone (iOS or Android or Windows) that accesses a remote database with secure login.
• Ability to work independently and communicate effectively.
• Desire to work in a start-up environment for a small company.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience in scientific or instrumentation programming.
• Course in numerical analysis OR professional experience at a comparable level.
• Experience with RAD environments such as Embarcadero Delphi XE5, or willingness to translate Delphi code into C++, Java, or an equally modern, multi-platform language. 
• Familiarity with XML.  Position will involve work with the XML extension AnIML, the Analytical Instrument Markup Language.
• Esthetic sense for development of attractive computer/human interfaces.

We believe we have the technology, insight and drive to succeed in the highly competitive field of low cost hand-held spectrometers, and to create a mass market for such instruments. We offer competitive salary and benefits; stock options are a portion of the compensation package. Up to 20% time is expected to be used for professional development. If you are interested in joining us, please apply.

TO APPLY:

Send a cover letter, resume, and names and contact information of three references to: info@spectroclick.com.

SpectroClick is an equal opportunity employer, which includes statuses of protected veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities. We welcome individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity.